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Category: Heathcote Williams

  • 2014 highs

    The Artist Taxi Driver relentless
    daily feedback on behalf of
    the silent majorities

    Heathcote Williams and UK
    historical poetry activism
    in fine fucking form

    Russel Brand trews and
    social activism in the face
    of painscream

    James Corbett and the
    Corbett report consistent
    open source research

    Bruce Sterling lectures
    and on going socio-cybernetic
    prose

    Cory Doctorow every note
    Plus all great work by
    the EFF

    Chaos Computer Club
    lectures and shared
    feedback all mutants
    come home in glory

    Steven James Pratt

  • Heathcote Williams and hard poetic critical trews

    After watching the much hyped latest episode of Question Time i quickly fixed up proper with Heathcote Williams, my new fav. UK poet-rebel. Williams can say in a 3 minute poem what would take a question time guest a decade to communicate (perhaps the comedian could keep up?) further evidence to me that poets hold the key to understanding politics, and Heathcote Williams speaks for Billions of people around the world with his critical prose. Lets hope that more people hear and read him, especially those in the UK.

    I would highly recommend his work titled ‘American Porn’ featuring a prose poem about Alan Turing which i wager contains more information, as Claude Shannon would define it, than the entire new Hollywood movie about Turing. I doubt, for example the movie will include the link with Apple computers, and the current exploitation of foreign labour and the need for suicide nets at some Apple workcamps, which in the capable hands of Heathcote becomes a poetic fact, and in my head yesterday when i heard it for the first time, epiphany.

    http://www.sea-urchin.net/news/heathcote-williams-american-porn-news-2/

    http://youtu.be/x-QqMKdexZA

    Steven James Pratt